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There’s no question that driver fatigue poses a serious threat to safety on our nation’s roadways. But just how bad is the threat? Well, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the number of fatigue-related crashes reported to the police each year stands at a staggering 100,000, many of which involve professional drivers in heavy commercial vehicles. That means an average of 1,550 deaths, 71,000 injuries and $12.5 billion in monetary damages each year as a result of fatigue-related accidents.

Untreated severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with increased aggressiveness of malignant cutaneous melanoma, according to a multicenter prospective study on the relationship between sleep-disordered breathing and cancer.

Truck drivers that have been diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) who fail to adhere to treatment had a preventable crash rate five times higher according to researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Morris, Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and colleagues.

A news report from Stuff.co.nz examines the sleep disorder of sleep shopping.

The increasing reports of people firing up phones and laptops in their sleep don’t surprise the founder of the New Zealand-wide Sleep Well Clinic, Dr Alex Bartle.

- See more at: http://www.sleepreviewmag.com/2015/07/shopping-in-sleep-strange-new-parasomnia/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=SR+Daily+7%2F21&sp_rid=NDMzMzY0MDI5MTES1&sp_mid=11931533&sp_lnm=S|Shopping%20in%20Your%20Sleep?%20The%20Strange%20New%20Parasomnia&spMailingID=11931533&spUserID=NDMzMzY0MDI5MTES1&spJobID=581481735&spReportId=NTgxNDgxNzM1S0#sthash.mmU8vw8T.dpuf

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